1/12/2006IBM, Sony and Toshiba announce that they will extend their joint work on fundamental research related to new chips, including materials research. The three companies have been working together for several years on 45 nm technology and the new agreement will extend this collaboration to 32 nm. The development work under the new deal will take place at three locations in New York state: IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, the Center for Semiconductor Research at Albany Nanotech, and at IBM's chip factory in East Fishkill. In August 2005, IBM announced that it will extend the collaboration with AMD on 32- and 22-nm process and chip technologies through 2011. Source: Network World

4/2/2002IBM Corp., Toshiba Corp., and Sony Corp., announce plans to co-develop advanced process technologies on 300-mm wafer substrates. The R&D partnership is aimed at on 90-nm, 65-nm , and 45-nm technology nodes based on several advanced process technologies and materials, such as SOI wafers, copper-metal interconnects, and low-k dielectrics. In addition, IBM will transfer its SOI technology to Japan's Sony and Toshiba. A team of scientists and engineers from IBM, Sony, and Toshiba will co-develop SOI technologies and devices at IBM's Semiconductor Research and Development Center (SRDC), based in East Fishkill. Source: SBN